There is something quietly remarkable happening on the world stage right now, and Pakistan is at the centre of it. As the United States of America and Iran inch toward a negotiated resolution of their conflict, it is Islamabad, not any other country, that has emerged as the trusted go-between. Pakistan has hosted high-level talks, shuttled proposals between two sides that do not even speak to each other directly, and done what seasoned diplomats describe as the hardest thing in any dispute: made both parties feel heard without fully siding with either.

What made Pakistan credible was not military strength or economic leverage. It was neutrality, access, and the willingness to sit in a room and listen. In other words, it was mediation. Now here is the question worth asking: if mediation can help two adversarial countries find common ground, why are we so reluctant to use it closer to home?

Pakistan's courts are carrying a weight they were never designed to bear.........

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